– Prof. G V Muralidhara, Director, ICFAI Business School (IBS), Bangalore
ICFAI Business School Bangalore, established in 1995, is housed in a spacious 22-acre campus near Kengeri, with all requisite infrastructure and facilities. Bangalore is home to the IT services industry, the pride of India, and a flourishing base for innovative start-ups. IBS benefits from access […]
Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya has built a strong culture of heritage sensitivity. Our students work towards the propagation and revival of heritage arts. The preservation of Indian heritage through the ‘Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Dharohar Festival’ is a testament to SKV’s vision to pass on the legacy of Indian heritage and cultural mores to its students and […]
As she went around the school premises, fulfilling her responsibilities as the Games Captain of the school, or sat in her class, listening to her teachers with rapt attention, there was no doubt that this girl was special. Her demeanour, her perseverance, her diligence and her omnipresent smile – endeared her to her friends and […]
A chartered accountant for whom provision of high-quality K-12 education was his life’s mission, Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo is widely credited for placing the educationally underserved eastern state of Odisha (pop.46 million) on the education map of India. In 2008, he forsook a successful accountancy practice to follow his dream of establishing an internationally benchmarked […]
An alumna of Osmania and Agra universities, Dr. Gita Karan is the Hyderabad-based founder-principal and director of the Gitanjali Group of five K-12 schools in the city of pearls. These schools have an aggregate 7,000 children and 500 teachers on their muster rolls.
After a short stint as a teacher, she discerned a paucity of schools […]
Language Week: In an increasingly globalised world, it is important to inculcate respect and appreciation for different languages in the impressionable young minds. At Delhi Public School, Vadodara, students are offered a choice of English, Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit. The Language Week is organised to encourage the students to enjoy the nuances of languages by […]
NAVRATRI: Navratri, the much loved festival of Gujarat was celebrated in all its piety, pomp and grandeur at Delhi Public School, Harni. The children came well dressed in traditional attires and danced to the soulful tune of Raas Garba.
CHILDREN’S DAY: Children’s Day is always a special occasion for any school. DPS Harni saw its campus […]
– Anjum Babukhan, Director, Glendale Group of Schools
At Glendale, we provide nurturing learning spaces where students cherish their childhood experience. Glendale is nestled in a green ten-acre campus which provides a serene environment in the backdrop of nature. Here, we strongly believe that “nature nurtures” as we sensitise our student to be mindful of environment […]
Ranjana Raghunathan, assistant professor, School of Liberal Arts and Design Studies, Vidyashilp University
We live in a rapidly changing world where the youth need to grapple with newer challenges and chaos at a much faster pace. The social, economic, and ecological complexities wrought by rapid development, rising fundamentalisms, and environmental damage are unprecedented. There is a […]
– Sunanda Menon, Principal, SVKM School, Dhule
Educational institutions do not organically develop into learning organisations; there are several factors prompting the change. To transform a school into a learning organisation for its continuous growth and improvement, we need to restructure, create a competitive advantage and develop a stakeholder responsive culture.
A learning organisation is an organisation […]
Shalini Moray, coordinator – Foundational Stage, Navrachana School, Sama
As teachers, we each have a range of values that influence and inform our philosophies of education. For most, if not all of us, these will include respect for the individual, tolerance, an appreciation of the role of community and society, a sense of dependence upon others, […]
Technology, when used selectively, can make teaching-learning fun and more effective. Although we believe more in a practical mode of teaching rather than solely relying on technology; however, through the selective integration of technology in teaching-learning, we have been able to take the learning experience a notch higher.
For example, a paper recycling machine/unit has been […]
THEY FOUND WHAT? STORIES OF DARING DISCOVERIES BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
THEY MADE WHAT? STORIES OF INGENIOUS INVENTIONS BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
Shweta Taneja; HACHETTE INDIA; Rs.399; 288 pp
HERE’S A welcome addition to popular-science writing for children in India. Shweta Taneja, the author, is passionate about familiarising children with the wonders of modern science and scientists, and has been […]
HIMALAYAN CHALLENGE: INDIA, CHINA AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE
Subramanian Swamy
RUPA
Rs.595 Pages 240
WITH THE just concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) making global headlines, this is a good time to review Subramanian Swamy’s slim but informative book which suggests ways and means to mend Sino-India ties, slowly but […]
LIKE THE BOURBON KINGS OF 16TH CENTURY France, members of the opposition Congress party refuse to learn from history. Despite this vintage political party (estb.1885) being roundly trounced in two successive General Elections (2014 & 2019), Congress has rejected the party presidency bid of erudite and charismatic Dr. Shashi Tharoor, former assistant secretary-general of the […]
ALMOST A DECADE AGO, ONE ANIL SHARMA, a general manager of this publication, resigned and started a rival magazine under the name and style of Education Today. Initially published as a print magazine in which school principals and leaders wrote their own encomiums, it currently bills itself as an education portal. However, its main business […]
THERE’S A RECKLESS, BULL-IN-A-CHINA-SHOP defining characteristic of the top leadership of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in power at the Centre since 2014. On Hindi Diwas (September 14), heir-apparent Union home minister Amit Shah resurrected the dormant issue of the country’s national language by issuing an appeal to all state governments to communicate with the […]
Alokesh Sen
THE DESCRIPTIVE ‘LEARNING SPACE’ EVOKES the image of classrooms in which teachers and students are involved in face-to-face interaction. Undoubtedly, classrooms are the principal theatres of teaching-learning. However, in present times of internet connectivity and hybrid education, learning spaces need to be more broadly defined. In my school, students sitting by a pond or […]
A commerce graduate of M.S. University, Baroda (Vadodara) with an MBA awarded by the blue-chip University of California at Berkeley (USA), Kiran Patel is joint managing director of the Mumbai-based American Spring & Pressing Works Pvt. Ltd (Aspee, estb.1946). The closely held Aspee is one of India’s top agri-business companies engaged in manufacturing pesticides, spraying […]
Grandson of the late Padma Bhushan Mungturam Jaipuria (1904-1978), a nationalist industrialist-educationist who promoted the Seth Anandram Jaipuria College in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1945, Delhi-based Shishir Jaipuria is Chairman and Managing Director of Ginni Filaments Ltd. Simultaneously, Shishir Jaipuria is also Chairman of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions (SAJGEI), an umbrella organisation […]
Enthusiastic response of school promoters, trustees, principals and teachers to the 12th EWISRA conclave is proof that the educators’ community has accepted that progressive schools accord attention to several parameters of institutional excellence, not mere academic outcomes, writes Summiya Yasmeen
The EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23 Awards (EWISRA) conclave staged in Delhi NCR on October 11-12 […]
EducationWorld @23
Although disappointment with achievements of this publication, which has been ploughing a lonely furrow for over two decades exceeds contentment, there is cause for some satisfaction. Today, there is substantially greater acceptance within the establishment and society of several causes consistently advocated by EducationWorld, Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
WITH PUBLICATION OF this issue, EducationWorld […]
There’s paranoia driving the mindset of BJP leaders. Overtly directed at religious minorities, its animosity is equally if not more, focused on westernised, English speaking segments of Indian society, writes Rajiv Desai
HERE’S A TRUE STORY: A DELEGATION OF Christians called on Narendra Modi soon after he assumed the office of prime minister in 2014, to […]
BRAZILIAN ACADEMICS HOPE THAT THE country’s upcoming final round of the presidential election on October 30 will bring an end to President Jair Bolsonaro’s “war on science”. But most admit that, even if the populist leader loses, his influence will be slow to fade.
All polls ahead of the first round of voting on October 2 […]
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA (CPC) congresses are rubber-stamp affairs. The 2,300 delegates of the 20th Congress that recently concluded in Beijing, had no chance of scuppering the decisions — already made in secret — that were unveiled at the event. Most of them had undergone training in a vast system of schools that the party […]
BITTER LEADERSHIP ROW AT THE WORLD’S most pan-national university has cost it almost half year’s revenue, in an escalation of the economically and politically fuelled funding insecurity that bedevils the institution. Staff at the University of the South Pacific (USP) say that the institution’s biggest contributor, the Fijian government, has withheld F$78 million (Rs.275 crore) […]
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PARTY FOR WESTERNERS. Young men snogged in the corridor. Girls downed tumblers of wine. The real shock, though, was the hubbub of voices. Though this was a gathering of young Emiratis, almost everyone was chatting in English, nowadays the dominant tongue of Gulf countries.
On paper, Arabic is one of the […]
CHINESE UNIVERSITIES ARE CLOSING IN ON US global dominance of higher education, but internationalisation has proved to be a weak link for the Asian superpower, according to the latest edition of the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings. The biggest global ranking to date reveals that the research supremacy of American universities is waning, in […]
FEARS OF A BROADER DRAFT COULD BE USED to suppress opposition to the Ukraine war and further limit free speech on Russian campuses, giving universities a “powerful tool” to silence potential dissenters. To date, the Kremlin has said it is drafting only reservists to fight in Ukraine, with the presidential decree explicitly exempting students at […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
AJAY GUPTA is founder-CEO of S.K. Educations Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based company that owns the Bachpan Play School and Academic Heights Public Schools (AHPS) brands. Over the past 20 years since Gupta ventured into K-12 education, the number of Bachpan and AHPS franchisee schools has multiplied to 1,200 with an aggregate enrolment of […]
Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
JAMES COSTAIN is the newly appointed Head of School at the Legacy School (estb.1984), Bengaluru, ranked among India’s Top 10 international day schools, and #1 in Karnataka and Bengaluru in the latest EW India School Rankings 2022-23. Affiliated with the UK-based Cambridge International and Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB) exam boards, Legacy School has […]
After 30 days, children’s learning outcomes were so transformed that the district magistrate requested DEVI Sansthan to expand its programme to another 200 schools, writes Sunita Gandhi
TODAY, SEVEN OF TEN CHILDREN ACROSS India cannot read with comprehension by their tenth birthday. The Covid-19 pandemic severely disrupted Indian education, but the pre-pandemic picture wasn’t rosy either. […]
Against the backdrop of growing wealth inequality and hunger, a rising wave of philanthropy funding is gathering momentum around the world and in India. According to the Global Philanthropy Report 2021, the education sector is specially favoured by philanthropic foundations and high networth individuals, writes Dilip Thakore
Contrasting images of 21st century India: favourable […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India School Rankings (estb. 2016) acknowledge and felicitate schools — especially newly-promoted, low-profile primary-secondaries — that excel under parameters other than the 14 under which schools are rated and ranked in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings which are based on field-based countrywide interviews.
In July-August advertisements on our website (www. […]
-Makarand Paranjape
ARE CHINESE UNIVERSITIES BETTER THAN Indian universities? If we go by hard facts, the simple answer is yes. But the simple answer is not always the correct answer. If the primary purpose of a university is to not merely disseminate information and impart skills, but nurture creative and critical thinking, the superiority of Chinese […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
KUSUM BHANDARI and PARIMAL DAS are joint conveners of Udayan Care Kolkata (UCK), the regional chapter of Udayan Care, an NGO founded in Delhi in 2002 by social activist Kiran Modi. Udayan Care provides shelter, education scholarships and vocational training programmes to homeless children. In 2007, philanthropist-educationist Bhandari and Das, former president of […]
Nishant Saxena (Lucknow)
An extra-curricular activity of RANJEET SINGH YADAV, a sub-inspector of the Uttar Pradesh state police has transformed him into a press and social media star in India’s most populous state (215 million). In his off-duty hours, this Ayodhya-based khaki wale guruji (‘teacher in khaki’) runs an informal school for 65 children under the […]
Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
A 14-member team of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (KCT, estb.1984) bagged the communication prize (€2,000) in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge (MEBC) international competition, in which technical universities from 21 countries participated. This year’s MEBC version 9.0 held in Monaco on July 6-9 required participating teams to build sustainable boats within […]
Somasekar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
India’s women’s boxing star Nikhat Zareen (26) who won a gold medal in the lightweight category at the Commonwealth Games which concluded in Birmingham on August 8, and was crowned world champ at the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Boxing Championships held in Istanbul three months earlier, is not resting on her […]
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Hindi language zealots should calm down
Sanjaya Baru
OFTEN DISPARAGED BY INTELLECTUALS, no institution has played a bigger role in the popularisation of Hindi across the country than Bollywood cinema. When crowds throng cinema halls in Madurai and Kolkata, Vijayawada and Vadodara to watch Rajesh Khanna romance Hema Malini, they voluntarily learnt the language in which this Punjabi matinee idol was wooing […]